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<p>lol Eric Furda.</p>
<p>I may deflect accusations by accusing other schools of the same, etc.</p>
<p>however, YOU, curiouslee, base your accusations on essentially…nothing.</p>
<p>there is no evidence at all supporting your claims, only some thread on CC with a whole bunch of acceptances/denied students posting their stats, maybe a hundred or two out of the 22,000 applicants? </p>
<p>the point is that neither of our arguments have any solid evidence, no data sheets collected from past years, no giant naviance graph to show that 22,000 applicants’ results.</p>
<p>Love is blind…</p>
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<p>You said it <3 <3</p>
<p>bi,</p>
<p>Why do you keep posting in threads in which I have posted?</p>
<p>I don’t mind or anything. Just “curious,” that’s all.</p>
<p>P.S. Very clever username. I LOLed!</p>
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<p>so when a top student with 4.0gpa, perfect test scores, and recs applies to HYPSM, and gets rejected from everywhere, everyone consoles him by saying “it must’ve been your essay, everthing else was perfect. they just must’ve thought, from your essay, that you didn’t fit in”, which is perfectly fine and probably a correct assumption.</p>
<p>but when someone like that applies to WUSTL and gets waitlisted, it’s like “ZOMG, you should’ve gotten in, even with a crappy essay you could’ve gotten in, WUSTL has ‘tufts syndrome’!” </p>
<p>for the record, i’m not blaming other schools for practicing “tufts syndrome”, i’m simply saying it’s inevitable wherever you go and that there’s a clear double standard when it comes to comparing HYPSM practices and WUSTL practices that goes beyond what is supposed to be fair.</p>
<p>It’s not a “double standard” b/c HYPSM >>>>> WUSTL.</p>
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That pretty much sums up people’s reactions about WUStL. It makes them feel better about themselves. It’s really kind of sad.</p>
<p>Hey, I may not go to Harvard, and my school may be one of the less selective top universities…but at least it’s better than WUStL, right? I mean, I was rejected. Surely that means I’m so much smarter than the students there! Gosh, it’s such a loser school. I rock!</p>
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<p>That would be because they don’t bother accepting well-rounded kids but rather, those with strictly the highest GPAs and SAT scores.</p>
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<p>How would you know that? Last I checked, WashU was one of the only major schools to not file waitlist info in their CDS</p>
<p>“I love the idea of somebody hating WUSTL so much as to go through the trouble of tracking this problem and typing it up.”</p>
<p>Well, just like love…hatred knows no boundaries. Curiouslee obviously has something against WUSTL and god knows why. However, the accusation is unsupported…sure he/she can say that there’ve been a number of students who got into ivies but got waitlisted by WUSTL. But we all know that there have been a similar number of students who got into ivies and also got into WUSTL. If he/she thinks that people with great HS results and test scores should get into WUSTL or any top 20 schools, then I just have to say this: “WELCOME TO AMERICA!”</p>
<p>Regarding the issue of the mail, I expressed interest in WUSTL and have received some mail, but by no means is it “excessive,” nor is it superfluous. I received information on the college of arts and sciences, scholarships, the St. Louis area, and the med. school early application program after I expressed interest in biology. Admittedly, they never sent this information all in one tidy package, but it amounted to no more information than I would have expected from any other university in which I had expressed interest.</p>
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<p>But what about need?</p>
<p>lolz admissions humor!</p>
<p>Come to WUSTL, where love is indeed blind but need isn’t (oh well)!</p>
<p>Diversity…schmiversity!</p>
<p>God help you if you end up on their mailing list…</p>
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<p>I’m still getting giant packets from them, and I’m going to college! They sure know how to market themselves.</p>
<p>One thing though, I feel sorry for the trees that died (RIP). Maybe they can do something like a “WUSTL-roll” meme instead of killing precious trees (do they use recycled paper?).</p>
<p>On second thought, that would be just creepy and annoying.</p>
<p>^ Haha. Yeah, I started getting stuff in the mail in 10th grade, and it continued up until just a few months ago (I’m going to college in a couple weeks). I’m not really a tree hugger, but geeze… I’m not kidding when I say that I got something weekly (at LEAST) from them for the past three years. And that includes post cards, letters, view books, etc. </p>
<p>And they funny thing is, my SAT scores aren’t all that great (1820, 11 Essay), so I had little chance of getting in anyway lol.</p>
<p>Wow, I live in Jersey and have never gotten anything from them :(. I feel left out.</p>
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<p>Surprisingly, that name wasn’t a pun.</p>
<p>I’m against paying $200,000 to go to a school that you’ll be explaining the rest of your life (“No, not the one in Seattle. Or the one in DC. Or the one in Maryland.”). If you get plenty of financial aid, fine. But if you’re paying full freight, then go to a frickin’ school that isn’t an oxymoron.</p>